Welcome to the Hampton University Student Counseling Center

The Student Counseling Center provides individual counseling
to currently enrolled Hampton University Students. The usual topics
of concern include managing normal developmental crises connected to
adjusting to university life; stress and anger; anxiety; depression;
and relationship conflicts with family, peers, partners, and faculty.
It also offers friends, roommates and couples counseling. There are
four psycho-educational group opportunities as well: stress
management, readiness for change, alcohol and drug education, and
anger management. Referrals to clinicians and area hospitals are
provided as needed. We also receive referrals from friends, faculty,
staff and parents. In addition to providing counseling, our staff
reaches out to the campus through residence hall chats, classroom
presentations and campus-wide education, prevention and social
events.

The Counseling Center also has student groups and
organizations attached to it. The Peer Counselor Organization is an
official University organization that operates during the academic
year. Summer Peer Helpers work with Pre-college/Summer Bridge
students. Read about these groups through the "Peer Support
Programs" menu option.

Cost of Services

Appointments

Appointments are made by phone and in-person. Walk-in
service is provided on an as needed basis and dependent upon
availability of staff. When scheduling an appointment, background
information is obtained and an appointment is scheduled as soon as
possible during students' free (non-class) time. Hours of operation
are 8:00am – 5:00pm, Monday through Friday. Counseling is conducted
from 9:00am – 4:00pm. After-hours service for emergencies is
provided by the counselor on-call, and accessed through the HU Police
Department at 757-727-5666.

Confidentiality

Counseling services and records are confidential. We neither
confirm nor disconfirm any student's client status, and records are
kept under lock and key and are not shared with others. After seven
(7) years, they are shredded. Disclosures to third parties, including
parents and legal guardians are made only with students' specific
written consent. Confidentiality may be broken without written
consent for the safety of the student and others when there is a
likelihood of life-threatening harm to self or others, disclosure of
child or elder abuse, loss of the ability to provide self-care or
court order, or the student is under the age of 18. Although
employees of the University are required by Title IX to report
disclosures of sexual harassment, assault and/or rape, the Counseling
Center is exempt from the requirement – confidentiality is
maintained. If the disclosure were to include threats of harm to self
or others, child or elder abuse, confidentiality could be
broken.